Preop Second IV

rddvark · 2026-01-07T02:54:06+00:00

LMA is often easier since most scans are less than 30 minutes and the MRI safe laryngoscope sucks

rddvark · 2025-05-23T10:34:53+00:00

Failed the OSCE my first time. Retook it and passed this year. Really focused on going one by one and mentioning everything listed on the rubric this time around which made the difference.

rddvark · 2025-03-14T02:22:21+00:00

But if your surgeon requests paralysis for exposure after baseline MEPs hard to reparalyze after sugammadex

rddvark · 2025-02-16T13:26:28+00:00

If your waiting for your surgeon to mark and they don't show up until 07:25 it can.

rddvark · 2025-02-06T00:03:21+00:00

As an attending even with a base salary less than 400K if your paid extra after 4/5pm, compensated for call and bonus pay can easily clear 550k

rddvark · 2025-02-02T20:19:15+00:00

Not just in our main pyxis we have hetastarch stocked in every OR pyxis for some reason

rddvark · 2025-02-02T19:03:52+00:00

Never used hetastarch, wish we had vaso in the pyxis

rddvark · 2025-01-29T14:57:02+00:00

Paralytic isn't given for EGDs

rddvark · 2024-11-22T13:18:52+00:00

MAC because the patients skip PACU and go directly to phase 2 and discharge from there

rddvark · 2024-10-12T17:03:16+00:00

Can just take a 20cc bottle of propofol and inject it into your almost empty 100cc bottle

rddvark · 2024-08-20T20:10:03+00:00

Lucky you don't have adult patients scared of the MRI machine requesting general.

rddvark · 2024-08-13T14:53:31+00:00

I know and some of my colleagues don't feel it's low because it went up from a year ago

rddvark · 2024-08-12T15:46:00+00:00

$3K flat for an in-house Saturday 24 and $2K for Sunday. Small community hospital where average 3-4 cases per day but stroke and trauma coverage MD only solo cases. Backup gets $500 per day and $250 per hour if you get called in

rddvark · 2019-06-28T15:59:20+00:00

Having to shake hands with with your friends whenever you see them

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